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Courts & crime, 1944

811 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 41

Fined £30 for Railway Theft

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 2

“Defendant is a man who is well thought of in the Railway Department. and is a most reliable Transhipper,” said Detective Neville, at the Albury…

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Ordered a Month’s Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 2

Keith Gow, aged 19, laborer, pleaded guilty in the Wagga Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing a wristlet watch, the property of Thomas…

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Wider Assault Now Expected Expected LONDON, June 4

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 1

The Allied occupation of Rome is but the first step in a wider assault which, striking from the south-cast and west of Europe, is designed to…

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Where the Mighty Allied Assault Is Being Made

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 1

This map is of the area where the most momentous operations of the war are taking place. British and American troops have landed and are fighting in the Cherbourg-Le Havre area. The German radio spoke of the bombardment of Le Havre, and of parachute landings on the…

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Goes To Gaol Rather Than Pay Fine BATHURST

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 4

Rather than pay a fine of £2 16/ recently for having failed to pick up fallen fruit and for having failed to spray, a well known orchardist, Thomas…

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£20,000 Costs in Court Action Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 5

Three judges of the State Full Court have retired to their chambers to read the voluminous documents in the appeal of Dr George Bell, a…

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Western Europe Invaded Vast Sea And Air Armadas Strike Assault Launched at Dawn “Everything Proceeding According to Plan” Mr Churchill LONDON, June 6

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 1

The greatest military operation of history—the invasion of Axis-held western Europe by the Allies—began before dawn this morning. Climaxing months of intensive preparation, the invasion has come within a few days of the fourth anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation. It has been to this moment that forces of freedom and the enslaved people…

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A Former Inspector Sentenced Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 4

In the Court of General Sessions today John Carroll a former Mock inspector, of Myors ave., Ascot Vale, was sentenced by Judge Macindoe to six…

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Two Wharf Laborers Sent to Gaol SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 June 1944 · page 4

Two wharf laborars were the each sentenced to a month’s goal at the Central Police court today for having stolen butter from the AUSN Wharf at Darling Harbor last…

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New Trial Refused; Man Sentenced to Death Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 1

In the Court of Criminal Appeal today, the Chief Justice (Sir Edmund Herring), Mr Justice Lowe and Mr Justice O’Bryan dismissed the appeal made on behalf of…

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Pleased With Court’s Decision SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 2

During the period in which validity of the directorate’s authority to direct persons to specified jobs was in question a state of uncertainty was created with a…

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Culcairn Property Case Dismissed in Albury Court

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 3

The application of Arthur Hamilton Mackie, grazier, to the Albury Court to order John Joseph Mazzocchi to deliver up a property of 1600 acres at…

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The Manpower Regulations Declared Valid by Full High Court

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: The Full High Court to-day upheld the appeal of the Commonwealth Government against the decision of the N.S.W…

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Where Police Found Some Fighting Men ! MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 1

[?]up raids on houses frequented by Allied servicemen at North Melbourne and West Melbourne were made early this morning by the…

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Mathoura Stealing Cases Two Men Convicted

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 3

At Mathoura Police Court on Friday before Mr. Stewart, P.M. Richard Henny Rosenow, (22), and John Henry Boyd (22), both of Echuca, were…

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N.S.W. Police Art Union

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 3

NSW. Police Department has undertaken to raise £25,000 of the £150,000 required to build Anzac House, a site for which, has been selected in…

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SGT. B. G. LUTHER Farewelled by Police Associates

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 3

On Friday afternoon there was a very short and simple ceremony in the Hay Police Office, when the colleagues of Sgt. B. G. Luther gathered…

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Two Days Gaol for Begging

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 2

That he “did wander abroad in Deanst, to beg alms,” was the charge against Patrick John Clancy, aged 42, to which he pleaded guilty in Albury…

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Failed to Hold Soldier’s £85; Sent to Gaol MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 5

Charlton C Harrison, of Anderson St, Albert Pack, a barman who failed to return £85 entrusted to him by Pte Gorden Michael Gibson, AIF, was…

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A Former Government Employ Charged SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 6

Charged with the their of a list of Australian agents or probable Australian a[?] of United States suppliers to the Divis[?] of Import Procurement Henry Joseph…

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